While I won’t do  Broadway Joe and guarantee anything, but I think these ten things should and will happen in 2009.
1.  We finally stop hearing about Donovan McNabb’s benching and his permanently fractured relationship with Andy Reid because of said benching. This, however, will only happen when McNabb stops talking about how “insulted he was” [...]

It was the final Monday of the regular season, not even twelve hours after I’d scraped dirt off the Yankee stadium mound following the last ever game there. The entire family was getting ready to fly to Montoursville for one final off day. Knowing the Yankees were eliminated from the playoffs, I said to Mike [...]

I know that to fans, every game is a big deal, but what did yesterday’s game really mean? To me, not much. I will say, I was as surprised as anyone at the way the Giants ran all over the Ravens in the first half. (In the long run, I think that will help the [...]

Ryan Howard is lost at the plate. Everyone can see it. Joe Maddon was even gutsy enough to walk Chase Utley to get to the premier home run hitter and run producer in the game today. Nobody would do that, except maybe Joe Maddon, even though it was clearly the right thing to do. Now, [...]

Before I get to playoff match-ups, I want to say thank you for all the kind words regarding Mike’s season, and that I really don’t know what he is going to do next year. I think he was mentally prepared to retire, but after doing so well, and knowing how close the Hall of Fame [...]

With the playoffs right around the corner, there were a few baseball things I wanted to point out, to those of you who still consider yourselves baseball fans.
1. Baseball has become as unpredictable as football. I know that the Yankees made a run there where they were in the World Series about every year, and [...]

Remember; when you sit down to watch the Ohio State/USC game Saturday night, along with every other red-blooded man in America, that this game would not be a big deal if it wasn’t for the BCS. LONG LIVE THE BCS! A playoff system….phoey!
I heard a national radio guy make this analogy when comparing college basketball [...]

While the sports world has turned to football, one of the greatest athletes of our generation is about to accomplish something that has to be considered astounding. Greg Maddux is less than ten innings away from reaching 5000 for his career. That’s right 5000!

I think innings pitched may be one of the most underappreciated stats [...]

Let’s face it. The Rays winning the AL East is like Duke winning the ACC…in football. They have finished dead last in every year of their existence but one, and that year they were next to last. Couple that with the fact that the ’08 AL East will probably go down as the toughest division [...]

I’m sorry I missed all of you that made the WNST 10th anniversary party. I would have loved to have been there if I had actually been in the country. I was in the UK for a family reunion on my wife’s side, and while all you attendees were talking Baltimore sports, I was learning [...]

These are tough. At least, I think they’re tough and I’m a baseball nerd. These aren’t intended to make you feel stupid. These are more along the lines of stump your buddies and win free beers. That is if you have buddies who don’t read WNST.net. And if you do, are they really friends worth [...]

Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers. He beat Mark McGwire’s old record by two days.
Jesse Orosco. It was his first save of the season.
Javier Vazquez in ’04.
Don Baylor ’75, Jeff Manto ’95.
Mike Mussina
Billy Ripken, playing with the Texas Rangers
Bobby Abreu
Erik Bedard, Rodrigo Lopez, Sidney Ponson, and Jose Mercedes.
The Oakland A’s
Curt Schilling, Mike Mussina, Steve Finley, [...]

I’m sure that I’m going to get a comment box full of questions, all saying about the same thing. “Do you think your brother got screwed since he didn’t get named to the All-Star team?” So before I have to answer it several times individually, I’ll answer it once.
 
After Mike beat the Red Sox on [...]

Just as we did a month ago when John Smoltz announced that he was out for the season, and maybe forever, it is now time to look at the body of work of Curt Schilling to see if he is a Hall of Fame lock, a wanna be, or a borderline guy stuck somewhere in [...]

I know this is supposed to be about baseball, but let me throw in one comment about the NBA. I don’t know about you, but I was ready for the NBA playoffs to end. There is no sport, IMO, where teams turn it on and off like the NBA. Maybe it’s because they play so [...]